Publication date: 1877
Review Heroic women of the Bible and the church;: Narrative biographies of grand female characters of the Old and New Testaments, and of saintly women of the Christian church, both in earlier and later ages / J.B. Ford:
Publication date: 1976
Review Carrie Chapman Catt: A biography (Pioneers of the woman's movement) / Hyperion Press:
Authors
- Christopher Frost
- Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Dewey code: 194
List Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00
Review Simone Weil: On Politics, Religion and Society (Women of Ideas series) / Sage Publications Ltd:Long before postmodern or deconstructionist ideas became current, Simone Weil was concerned with recognizing the absence of consistency and the continual presence of reversals and contradictions in life. She was someone for whom the task of clarifying her perceptions of reality and meaning was an ongoing one. She challenged contemporary views on such complex issues as human nature, good and evil, divinity and truth. Weil's work offers a voice for those segments of society that are generally under-represented, misrepresented or totally silent in conventional historical and philosophical writings. In this introduction to Simone Weil's ideas, and the political and intellectual circumstances of her work, the authors make Weil's complex and at times elusive ideas accessible to readers. They delineate how her ideas evolved, and provide compelling excerpts from her writings to let her speak for herself. In addition, the authors provide their own interpretation of her work. Simone Weil will be widely read by students and academics involved in women's studies, philosophy, psychology, political and social theory.
Creator: Michael Shortland
Publication date: 1996-07-11
Dewey code: 509.4109034
List Price: $99.50
Price: $123.52
Review Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science / Oxford University Press, USA:It is rare nowadays to come upon an undeservedly neglected figure from Britain's Victorian age, but Hugh Miller (1802-56), the subject of this book, is one example. Admired in his time by such celebrated thinkers as Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller's many books on science, literature and religion addressed the preoccupying thoughts of the time, selling in tens of thousands of copies and winning admirers around the world. This collection of essays offers the first modern assessment of Miller, his life and work, and reveals one of the most fascinating and baffling men of his day. This newly discovered chapter in scientific thought will interest historians in science, social studies, labor studies, or the nineteenth century.
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 509.40902
List Price: $124.95
Price: $124.94
Review The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages (Collected Studies, Cs624.) / Ashgate Publishing:The aim of this volume is to explore Jewish participation in the scientific enterprise of the Middle Ages. It looks at the way in which Jews saw scientific knowledge as well as the contributions made by particular Jewish scholars.
Authors
- Ranulph, Sir Fiennes
- Lourdes Reyes
Publication date: 2004-01-11
Dewey code: 910
Price: $52.95
Review Capitan Scott/ Capitain Scott (Biografias):
Creator: June Purvis
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 324.6230941
List Price: $130.00
Price: $129.98
Review Votes for Women (Women's and Gender History) / Routledge:A fascinating book that charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as the Pankhursts and the militant wing, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's involvement with the constitutional wing and Jennie Baines' link with international suffrage movements. The book examines the importance of the suffrage movement to women's general emancipation in the twentieth century, and discusses its role as a catalyst to women's social and political equality.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-06-25
Dewey code: 848.91409
List Price: $135.00
Price: $135.00
Review Helene Cixous: Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing / Routledge:The work of Helene Cixous comprises some of the most radical aesthetic non-conformism in contemporary literature and literary theory. Cixous' great themes of existence, love, birth, death and dreaming nourish an unclassifiable work at the crossroads of diverse disciplines which concern everyone. In Helene Cixous, Rootprints, she explores the subterranean crossings which uncover the most intimate roots: those of childhood and language. Published here in English for the first time, this work traces Cixous' development as a writer and intellectual, and is an ideal introduction to her theory and her fiction. Unprecedented in its form and content, Helene Cixious, Rootprints breaks new ground in the theory and practice of autobiography. Cixous' creative reflections on the past simultaneously provide occasion for brilliant forays into the future. Helene Cixous, Rootprints includes an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Grubar, exploring Cixous' creative and intellectual processes; and a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous' family album, illuminating the connections between memory and diaspora. Also included is a stunning preface by Jacques Derrida.
Publication date: 1938
Review Famous mothers and their children, / Frederick A. Stokes Company:
Creator: D. E. Hardy
Publication date: 1997-08
Price: $29.95
Review My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar / Hardy Marks Publications:Self-invention, or rather, reinvention is at the heart of much gay culture. Being told that you should not be who you are encourages you to become someone else. But few gay men have self-invented with the panache and grandiloquence of James Lawrence Slatterly, who metamorphosed into the fabulous Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling. Taking his/her cues from Lana Turner, Kim Novak, and Gloria Graham, Candy Darling became a walking testament to Hollywood womanhood. Although she appeared in several Warhol films before her early death in 1974, Candy Darling didn't need theatrical vehicles: she lived her life as a star. My Face for the World to See is a collection of her diaries, drawings, and thoughts. While there is nothing profound, the book is a moving record of a life and imagination that illuminated the cultural landscape and burned brightly and too short.
Creator: Anthony Boden
Publication date: 2005-05
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $150.00
Price: $129.89
Review Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan / Ashgate Publishing:Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), a major figure of the Golden Age of British music, was arguably the greatest of all Welsh-born composers. Living through one of the most revolutionary periods in British history, his professional life was spent in the service of the Crown and the Church at both the Chapel Royal and Worcester Cathedral. Surviving the Civil War, the suppression of the music of the English Church, the closure of the Chapel Royal, the destruction of his organ at Worcester and the devastation of the city, Tomkins was able to find the strength and inspiration to continue composing secular music of fine quality. Much of Tomkins's output has survived, including his collection of music for the Anglican rite, Musica Deo Sacra, published posthumously in 1668. His work embraced both sacred and secular vocal music, pieces for keyboard and for viol consort, thereby proving him to be one of the most versatile figures of English Renaissance music. The first part of the book provides an absorbing biography of Tomkins, setting his life into fascinating historical context. The second and third parts include major essays on Tomkins by Denis Stevens, Bernard Rose, Peter James and David Evans, all authorities on the music of the period with each providing perceptive insights into Tomkins's music. The result is a successful piece of collective work that properly places Tomkins and his achievements in his time and enables readers to reassess him properly in relation to his elders and contemporaries. Tomkins has still not reached the 'household name' status of his great teacher, William Byrd, or of his close friend and colleague, Orlando Gibbons, but he is undoubtedly worthy of much greater recognition. The book complements the increasing number of live performances and recordings of Tomkins's music, both sacred and secular, and such a comprehensive account of the man and his work should appeal to early music scholars, performers and music lovers alike.
Publication date: 1992
Review Ja, man muss sich an die Jugend halten!: Alexander von Humboldt als Forderer der forschenden Jugend / SH-Verlag:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-12-02
Dewey code: 610.92
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review Sophia Jex-Blake (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) / Routledge:Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign that won the right for British women to enter the medical profession. Through her inital pioneering work in Germany and the United States, her crusade in Britain resulted in women's rights to higher education, professional careers and financial independence being more generally accepted. After years of extensive lobbying, she Founded the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 and two years later, largely due to her effortsm legislation was passed enabling women to take qualifying exmainations in medicine. As the suthor reveals, she was an intelligent pioneer, skillful at winning over liberals, the press and public opinion. Sophia Jex-Blake is a fascinating account of one woman's struggle for equality.
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2004-05-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $25.95
Price: $120.44
Review Soul Power: Born into Submission and Defeat she reached for the Stars and found the Light / iUniverse, Inc.:Australian writer Anna Morten was born into a deeply troubled post-war Germany. The result of an unwanted pregnancy and family rejection, she lived a despondent childhood experiencing sexual abuse, rape and prostitution under Russian military occupation. She endured a terrifying escape from the other side of the Berlin Wall, a tyrannical stepfather, a teenage marriage to an Arab with years of confinement, an adventurous rescue from an Islamic country, and more harrowing challenges. Trapped in irresolvable conflict, she discovered Australia. When her second marriage failed and her teenage daughter became a drug addicted street kid, Anna experienced a crisis that threatened to destroy her seemingly unbreakable spirit. At this point she "meets" TAREEN, a Divine Being from the Higher Realm of Light. He continues to teach her the basic facts about the Purpose of Life, the Spiritual Principles, Karma, the Concept of Reincarnation, and allows her glimpses into the future. Anna's story gives a remarkable account of self-discovery and inner growth, of spiritual awakening and universal awareness. [+]It propels the reader into a dimension that poses a challenge to the destructive logic of a world based in intellect and reason. It provides food for thought, mind-expanding information beyond global thinking as well as comfort and enlightenment.
Publication date: 1999-01
List Price: $75.95
Price: $121.75
Review Diana: Retrato de Una Princesa / Evergreen:
Publication date: 1972-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $121.00
Price: $121.00
Review Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century / Ams Pr Inc:
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00
Review Henri Dutilleux: His Life and Works / Ashgate Publishing:
Creator: Stephen L. Clark
Publication date: 1997-10-09
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $164.99
Price: $120.44
Review The Letters of C. P. E. Bach / Oxford University Press, USA:This is a complete edition of the correspondence of the most famous of J. S. Bach's sons. Very few of these letters have appeared previously in English translation. They provide a fascinating picture of an eighteenth-century composer hard at work publishing his own music, debating aesthetic matters, and championing the music and teachings of his father. The readable translation, detailed index, extensive cross referencing, and glossary of names make this an accessible and useful volume.
Publication date: 1996-09
Dewey code: 823.8
Review Elizabeth Gaskell / Minerva Press:
Publication date: 1982-04
List Price: $15.00
Price: $120.00
Review John Dowland / Univ of California Pr:
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